Post pics of Kawasakis that are RIP

mtnman wrote: Is that kerker on the rebuild one for a KZ 650 made to fit an 1982 gpz 750r??

OOPS its an 1000 not 750...me bad

My bike after hitting a truck bumper at a glancing blow.

I tore the engine down and rebuilt it . I had to get a set of jugs and install the 1075 kit and another head. The blow pushed back the jugs about have a dowel width.

A beautiful paint job bites the dust.

Oh Roy,when did this happen? :ohmy:
Problem being on a bike the damage spreads from one end to the other and ends up costing ten times the amount that it would cost to fix a car.

Nearly three years ago.

i cant stop checking in on this thread even though i get an upset belly looking at the pics :sick: :pinch: :sick:

75 Z1

Bought it like this


Sold it like this

The deliberate murder of KZ bikes because the owners wanted to mod them but did no planning, so they gave up after doing the damage, are the ones that I find really sad........

Hey, I've got an idea (but no plan) - I'll put a water-cooled Suzuki top end on my KZ engine....


Hey, Ive got an idea (but no plan) - I'll cut the frame's cross-member and turn my KZ-1000 into a street fighter....


Hey, I've got an idea (but no plan), I'll turn my all-original, cherry KZ650-C1 into a Yamaha street fighter....


Hey, I've got an idea (but no plan) - I'll completely disassemble my KZ and then, well, I'm sure I'll think of something....

Whats the time lenght record? :laugh: I raked this frame in 1999, painted the frame in Oct. 1999 with dupont chroma one single stage urethane. (can't even buy that stuff anymore) Painted it before a double lumbar fusion in 2000. It's a 76 KZ900. Funny, I have everything to put it together now. I will paint it this spring, early summer. Gonna do it GM diamond white pearl with a black engine.

Been Busy Lately.
:lol:

650ed wrote: The deliberate murder of KZ bikes because the owners wanted to mod them but did no planning, so they gave up after doing the damage, are the ones that I find really sad........

lol

I think 90% of those "could be" bikes would be completed if they just figured out the chain line. There's more to making a bike work than just modern suspension and stuffing a big ass tire under the rear fender.

650ed wrote: The deliberate murder of KZ bikes because the owners wanted to mod them but did no planning, so they gave up after doing the damage, are the ones that I find really sad]
You said Ed!!absolutely agree :S :side:

HAFROD wrote: Anyone got pics of bikes that are too far gone, in major need of help, current state of project, or just sitting and waiting to be helped?

Here is my '80 LTD. I found a guy on craigslist with some KZ parts. He said he only had bits and pieces left. When I found it it was sitting outside (in MA), and all that was left was the frame (no swinger or back wheel), engine (no pipe, no carbs), and front end. He said I could take what I wanted. I wanted it all, but I could only fit the engine and front end in my car.

A few days later I called him back to ask if he still had the frame. He said it was in a friend's pickup truck on the way to the scrap yard. I asked him to call his friend and ask him to bring it back. You can't get any more "RIP" than a frame in a scrap yard.

On my second trip I took the frame and we searched his garage for parts. We came up with the back wheel and brake, meters, and a few other bits. In the end I gave him $50 on the first trip, and $50 on the second. Oh, and I also got a clear title for the frame.

It sat outside for some time with no pipe or carbs, and then someone came along and kicked it over. So one exhaust valve head was snapped off, and several were very sticky. Although once I opened it up, I found a Wiseco 1075 piston kit!

Later I saw the same guy post a full Tracy body kit and Calfab swingarm, which I assume were once on this bike. If so it was pretty tricked out at one point.

For a while I was actually working on it. I fixed the valves, but found the cylinder walls were too pitted from ring rust to reuse. I found a neato swingarm and put the back wheel and stuff on to make it a roll (with super cheapo struts in place of shocks). The seat pan and pipe were parts I had sitting around. Then I got stuck, so I tossed the head and cylinders back on to keep the parts in one place (no pistons in there). It's been sitting for 3+ years.

I figure that since the frame was already sent off to the scrap yard, I can pretty much do anything I want to it. Normally I wouldn't be able to bring myself to hack up a vintage machine, but this is my free pass. I just need to find the time. Just as soon as I finish the Z1-R that I've broken down into nuts and bolts... and then clean up my other two Z1-Rs... and get that '95 GPZ1100 back together. So it's going to be a long while before the LTD gets any attention.